Marjorie Darrah

320 Armstrong Hall

Dr. Marjorie Darrah is Professor of Mathematics at WVU. She has 25 years experience teaching at the university level, and has led three National Science Foundation projects connecting students and teachers to cutting edge technology and making a smooth pathway to IT careers. She also had funding from the US Department of Education, SBIR program to develop new products incorporating haptic touch technology that allows a person to touch and interact with a virtual object. 

 
Her research also includes the development and implementation of biologically inspired algorithms (Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms). She has been involved in the development, implementation and field testing of genetic algorithms that coordinate missions using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this area she has had funding from both Army Research Labs and Air Force Research Labs. She is currently working on a NASA project using Neural Networks to do health monitoring of UAV systems to avoid system degradation or failure.  She was named on a patent for this system INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC SPEED CONTROLLER (IESC), Publication number: 20180307231. She has also conducted over 20 project  evaluations, specializing in evaluation of educational technologies and educational programs.

Before coming to WVU, she was the Director of the Computer Sciences Group for the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation and also taught ten years at Alderson Broaddus College, where she served at the Chair of the Natural Sciences Division.

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